Knocktoran

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knocktoran, from 105 m² to 114,362 m² (11.44 ha, 28.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Knocktoran in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 12 Sept 2026N/a

  Demolition of extension permitted under planning reference 01/1216 and construction of replacement single storey extension and alteration of roof structure/ design. And Planning Permission for the following: Construction of a replacement wastewater treatment system to include 6PE septic tank and percolation area. and all associated site and ancillary works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2661068

• 12 Apr 2018Conditional

  construction of a detached part two storey and part single storey dwelling house, a detached domestic garage, a new vehicular entrance and driveway to the proposed new dwelling connection to the public sewer, connection to all public utilities and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18353

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knocktoran.

Recorded monuments

• LI040-107 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In pasture, 125m E of Morningstar River that forms townland boundary with Ballinvana. Adjacent to old road from Knocklong to Kilmallock with crossing point over the river annotated 'Doon Ford' on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map lies 140m to W. Knocktoran (Cnoc Teorann/Hill of the boundary) House stands 110m to SE. Annotated ‘Ahadoon’ on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is depicted as a circular shaped platform defined by a scarp, interior planted with trees, intersected at NNE by post-1700 field boundary running roughly E-W. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised sub-circular shaped area (dims. c. 24m N-S x 26m E-W) defined by a scarp, incorporated into a post-1700 field boundary from SW-W-N- NE with outbuildngs of Knocktoran House to E. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey described this monument as Ahadoon meaning ‘Áth a’ Dúin, ford of the fort’, a fort in the townland of Knocktoran (OSNB Abbeyfeale to Bruree, 1232; OSL Vol. 2, 270). Possible platform ringfort or motte castle described by Westropp (1917-19, 176) as follows; ‘It is 16 feet [4.8m] to 18 feet [5.4m] high, the top girt by a low ring, 8 feet [2.4m] to 10 feet [3m] thick, and rarely 3 feet [0.9m] high. The platform inside this measures 60 feet [18.2m] across, or 123 [37.5m] feet at the base. There are traces of a fosse, but too defaced to be measured. The old road runs from it to the ford, westward down the slope'. Monument visible as a tree-covered earthwork on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 23 June 2021

Architectural heritage

• J. Creed, house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan four-bay two-storey house and shop, built c. 1860, converted to shop c. 1925, with shopfront to ground floor. Pitched slate roof, hipped to north-east corner, with red brick chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Coursed lightly tooled rubble limestone walls with tooled quoins, rendered to gables. Render wrap around fascia with architrave and cornice and raised lettering to north-east corner. Segmental-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills and red brick block-and-start surrounds, having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Segmental-headed window to south-east with red brick block-and-start surround and replacement timber framed window. Square-headed window openings to shopfront with paired timber framed fixed pane display windows having wrought-iron railing. Segmental-headed door openings with replacement timber glazed door having timber framed overlight. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door and overlight. Petrol pumps to north of shop.

• Knocktoran House, gate lodge, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge, built c. 1860, with single-bay addition to west. Now in use as house. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and terracotta ridge tiles, lean-to slate roof to addition. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with recessed bays to front (south). Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills. Bipartite one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to front elevation. Square-headed window opening to addition, side and rear elevations having replacement timber framed casement windows. Square-headed door opening having replacement uPVC door. Coursed limestone rubble boundary wall with peck dressed piers having wrought-iron pedestrian gate. Entrance to Knocktoran House to south, sweep walls having cast-iron railings terminating in square-profile cast-iron panelled piers with cast-iron double-leaf gates. Rectangular-plan courtyard defined by ranges of outbuildings to east of gate lodge. South-range comprising ten-bay single-storey stable block. Pitched slate roof. Coursed rubble limestone walls, rendered to south elevation. Square-headed window openings with single-pane timber framed windows. Some square-headed loop window openings to rear elevation. Square-headed door-opening, one with rendered windbreak. West range comprising six-bay single-storey south block and two-bay one-and-a-half-storey north block. Joined by wrought iron double-leaf gates. Both buildings having pitched slate roofs and coursed rubble limestone walls with slightly enlarged quoins. Square-headed window openings to south block with replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed rooflights to west slope of roof. Square-headed door openings with timber battened doors and red brick relieving arch over. Red brick relieving arch to north end, west elevation. North block having square-headed window openings with replacement timber framed windows. Elliptical-headed door openings having tooled limestone voussoirs and metal-sheet single-leaf doors. North range comprising five-bay two-storey house with eight-bay single-storey attached outbuilding to west and six-bay single-storey block to east. Hipped slate roof to house with red brick chimneystack. Pitched slate roof to attached buildings. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with render sills and recent timber framed windows. Square-headed door openings with timber battened doors.

• Knocktoran House, country house, 1770–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey country house, built c. 1780, with three-bay return. Single-bay two-storey over basement addition and three-bay two-storey over basement addition to north elevation, with single-storey three-bay conservatory addition to rear. Hipped slate roof with projecting eaves, having rendered chimneystack. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to additions, hipped slate roof to conservatory. Some cast-iron rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills having some six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows, some one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and some nine-over-nine pane replacement uPVC sliding sash windows. Elliptical-headed door opening with tooled limestone doorcase. Timber panelled door with recent outer timber framed glazed door, flanked by tooled stone panels to doorcase. Spoked fanlight over. Door approached by tooled limestone steps. Cast-iron bootscraper to steps. Door flanked by cast-iron wall-mounted lamps. Square-headed door openings to north addition with timber half-glazed panelled door. Courtyard to north of house with recent paved yard area. Walled to east with rendered wall having square-headed door opening with sliding sheet-metal door. West range of outbuildings comprising three-bay two-storey building with single-bay single-storey addition to east. Hipped slate roof. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings and segmental headed window opening with render sills and timber framed windows. Square-headed door opening with timber and glass panelled door. Segmental-headed door openings with tooled limestone surrounds and double-leaf timber battened doors. Six-bay north range with pitched slate roof. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings with render sills and timber framed windows. Square-headed door openings with timber panelled half-glazed doors with rectangular overlights. Tooled limestone steps to terraced grounds.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Knocktoran, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knocktoran.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Knocktoran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Knocktoran · Cnoc Teorann

Area

1,629,058 m² (162.91 ha, 402.55 acres)

Civil parish

Knocklong, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Emlygrennan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

850 people lived in 300 households in the Emlygrennan electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balline, Ballinvana, Ballynahinch, Darranstown, Doonmoon, Elton

Placenames

Knocktoran on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.